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| | Conservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Burke, the so-called "Father of Modern Conservatism," articulated a 'progressive' conservative position through the Whig party. | | | Burkean conservatives value them for their own sake, because they are the result of long experience, but religious conservatives may use 'community values' as a euphemism for their own Christian values, or even for theonomy. | | | The Conservative Party in Britain was a staunch defender of the British Empire, and was responsible for initial brutal repression of African decolonisation. |
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| | TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 12. Is the Third Way Finished?. John B. Judis. |
| | France's Jean-Marie Le Pen, Holland's Fortuyn, and Germany's Christian Democrats and Conservative Social Union have fanned fear of immigrants to the detriment of the democratic left. | | | SOCIAL POLICY: Prior to the 1990s, many Democrats dismissed a commitment to "law and order" as Republican racism. | | | Schröder still claims to be the follower of the third way, but his Social Democratic Party has failed to challenge the status quo of high-wage costs, driven by an aggressive labor movement, and draconian labor regulations that make it extremely difficult to lay off or dismiss workers, or to hire temporary or part-time workers. |
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| | The Militant - Vol.63/No.36 - October 18, 1999 -- Ultrarightist gains in Austria elections |
| | The conservative People's Party, which has been the Social Democrats' governmental coalition partner for the last 13 years, fell to 26.9 percent, down from 28.3 percent in 1995. | | | The Social Democratic party, which has been in the Austrian government for the last 30 years, lost close to 5 percent, down from 38.1 percent in 1995 to 33.4 percent. | | | The leader of the People's Party, Foreign Minister Wolfgang Schuessel, has stated that he will leave the coalition with the social democrats if his party doesn't come in second in the elections. |
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| | POLITICS in Lithuania |
| | It captured 8.17% of seats mainly at the expense of A. Paulauskas’ left-wing New Union (Social Liberals), the current coalition partners of the Social Democratic Party in the present government. | | | They are "Young Lithuania" and New Nationalist Union (in 5 districts); Lithuania's Polish Peoples Party (in 9 districts); and Lithuania's Russian Union (in 12 districts). | | | He switched his allegiance to Lithuanian Liberal Union and in 2000 was elected to the parliament. |
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Conservative ally's withdrawal adds to Merkel's difficulties |
| | On Tuesday, Edmund Stoiber, head of the conservative Christian Social Union, said he would remain governor of Bavaria rather than serve as economy minister, calling Muentefering a "pillar" of the proposed government. | | | The Social Democrats quickly nominated Matthias Platzeck, 51-year-old governor of the eastern state of Brandenburg, to replace Muentefering as chairman of the party to shore up its strength as it negotiates to keep a place in the government. | | | Now, a key conservative minister's decision to walk away from her proposed Cabinet leaves her authority on even wobblier footing – with turmoil in both the conservative and center-left ranks. |
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| | Social Democrats Lose by Landslide in Bavaria Germany Deutsche Welle 21.09.2003 |
| | The conservative opposition trounced Chancellor Schröder's Social Democratic Party in elections in Hesse and Lower Saxony on Sunday (Feb. 3, 2003). | | | Two months before Bavarian state elections, the Christian Social Union gave Edmund Stoiber a resounding show of support at a party congress and applauded his criticism of government tax policy. | | | Social Democrats Lose by Landslide in Bavaria |
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| | Germany Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System |
| | CDU members advocated conservative values and the benefits of a social market economy--that is, one combining capitalist practices and an extensive welfare system. | | | Bavaria has the largest concentration of conservative, rural, Catholic voters, and the CSU has dominated politics there since 1957. | | | The CDU is a national party except in the Land of Bavaria, where it is not active, in deference to its sister party, the Christian Social Union (Christlich-Soziale Union--CSU). |
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| | ummah.com forum - Germany: Schily Wants Easier Deportation of "Suspect" Foreigners |
| | Edmund Stoiber, Bavarian premier and head of the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), who was part of the long-running immigration negotiations, has demanded further refinements to the compromise which is designed to make it easier for qualified foreigners to move to Germany and work here. | | | However, both the Green Party, the Social Democrats' junior government coalition partner, and the opposition Free Democrats rejected the proposal, saying preventative arrests were not compatible with a country that recognizes democracy and the rule of law. | | | Interior Minister Otto Schily, of the ruling Social Democrats, said the Greens were threatening the coalition with their behaviour and blocking the chance of a compromise deal. |
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| | [news] News, 21.9.2003, 16:00 UTC |
| | In Bavaria, the conservative Christian Social Union is expected to be returned to power in a landslide. | | | Some polls indicate that Schroeder's Social Democrats are bound for their worst-ever post-war result in Bavaria. | | | The CSU is led by the man who ran for chancellor against Schroeder in last year's federal election, Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber. |
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| | Helmut Kohl, German chancellor for the last 16 years, and his Christian Democratic Party (CDU) are running well behind the Social Democrats (SPD) of Gerhard Schroeder in opinion polls as September 27 general elections approach. | | | This indicates that Gerhard Schroeder's strong personality influenced on the election battle rendering the Bavarian Social Democrats less effective. | | | Edmund Stoiber, its Christian Social Union president, uses a tougher brand of conservatism on, say, crime and immigration than Mr. |
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| | Elections in Lithuania |
| | "Jaunosios Lietuvos", naujųjų tautininkų ir Politinių Kalinių Sąjunga (Young Lithuania - New Nationalists and Political Prisoners Union): national-conservative party. | | | Lietuvos lenkų rinkimų akcija (Election Action of Lithuania's Poles): Alliance of the Polish minority party Lietuvos Lenkų Sąjunga (Lithuanian Polish Union) | | | Lietuvos liaudies sąjunga "U teisingą Lietuvą" (Lithuanian People's Union For a Fair Lithuania) |
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| | portland imc - 2003.07.01 - Green Party backs cuts in social programs |
| | At an assembly where the dismantling of social programs was euphemistically called "reform of the welfare state," one Green speaker after another stood up to praise the party as the "motor of reform." | | | The party conference in Cottbus signalled the demise of any lobby in the party for policies of social justice. | | | Social security must be uncoupled from a fixation on paid work, particularly when work (as in the US) is surreptitiously reduced to part-time, temporary or contract work. |
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| | Germany: right-wing trajectory of conservative parties in wake of Bush re-election |
| | He rejected the resolutions on health reform and called them “antisocial, bureaucratic and financially unsound.” After failing to win support for his position within the CSU executive committee, he resigned as deputy chairmen of the union’s parliamentary fraction. | | | Right-wing conservative politicians and Christian fundamentalists have sensed the possibilities for a radicalisation of their politics since the re-election of American president George W. Bush three weeks ago. | | | Behind the “solidarity principle” was the concept that major social problems—illness, unemployment and retirement—could be solved on the basis of solidarity. |
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| | Times of Oman |
| | German news agency DDP earlier reported that the SPD leadership had discussed a scenario in which Schroeder would resign, leaving Social Democrat leader Franz Muentefering to lead the government until regular elections are due in 2006. | | | BITTERFELD, Germany –– German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder rejected a report on Tuesday that leaders in his Social Democrats (SPD) had considered a plan for him to resign and for elections expected in September to be delayed. | | | Schroeder said last month he would seek an early election, probably in September this year after the SPD suffered a heavy defeat in its regional heartland of North Rhine-Westphalia. |
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| | Germany Online: Information Services: Publications: The Week in Germany |
| | Receiving 60.7% of the vote, the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) secured its best result since 1974 and registered an eight point improvement over its showing in state elections five years ago. | | | Voters in Bavaria dealt Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) a worse-than-expected defeat in state elections held there Sunday (September 21), sending a worrying message to the Chancellor as he seeks parliamentary approval for his ambitious package of economic reforms. | | | Social Democrats suffer bitter election defeat in Bavaria |
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| | Court Nixes Suit Brought on Behalf of Jesus |
| | They had tried before, and failed, to make the arch-conservative Christian Social Union, the dominant party in Bavaria, to axe the "Christian" part of its name. | | | In a tongue-in-cheek verdict, the normally staid Bavarian Constitutional Court - located in staunchly Roman Catholic Munich - threw out the case. | | | A German court has nixed a suit brought on behalf of Christ by angry "Universal Life" sect members - because the Savior can defend himself. |
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| | Christian Democratic Union (Germany) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It is generally conservative on economic and social policy and more identified with the Roman Catholic, and to a lesser extent Protestant, churches than are the other major parties, although the party's emphasis on Christianity is markedly lower today than it was a few decades ago, and its programs are pragmatic rather than ideological. | | | Nevertheless the CDU gained an absolute majority at the last state elections in the liberal and affluent city of Hamburg, which used to be a historic stronghold of the Social Democrats. | | | Opponents of the CDU are the social democratic SPD, the post-communist Left Party/PDS and the left-wing environmentalist Bündnis'90/Die Grünen. |
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| | - DAWN - Latest Stories; 24 April 2005 |
| | The Bavarian leader, who heads the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party, was speaking from the Vatican, where he attended the inauguration ceremonies as part of a 120-strong official delegation from Bavaria. | | | Stoiber told the German Catholic news agency KNA that the former cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who became pope after the death of John Paul II, had told him of his plan after his inaugural mass on Sunday. | | | The new pope has already announced that in August he will attend Catholic World Youth Day, which this year will be held in the western German city of Cologne. |
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| | BW Online September 23, 2002 Germany's Edmund Stoiber: Less Than Meets the Eye? |
| | If Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber unseats Social Democratic Party (SDP) Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in national elections on Sept. 22, this prosperity will be why. | | | In 1974, he was elected to the state parliament, representing Wolfratshausen, a community 15 miles south of Munich, where Stoiber and his family still occupy half of a modest two-family house. | | | Asked if Parliament should roll back laws that make it hard for employers to lay off workers, Deputy Mayor Horst Ritter, chairman of the Oberaudorf chapter of the CSU party, shakes his head doubtfully. |
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| | 2003 Annual Review for Germany |
| | In the city state of Bremen, the coalition government of the SPD and the Christian Democratic Party (Christlich Demokratische Union, CDU) defended its majority, as did the conservative Christian Social Union (Christlich Soziale Union, CSU) in Bavaria. | | | INQA is a broad platform (founded in 2001) which brings together the federal state, state-level governments, the social security administration, several companies and the social partners in an attempt to contribute to debate on the future of work. | | | In 2003, there were four major regional elections at the level of the federal states (Länder), which brought mixed results. |
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| | List of political parties in Lithuania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Christian Conservative Social Union (Krikščionių konservatorių socialinė sąjunga) | | | Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (Lietuvos Socialdemokratu Partija) | | | Peasants and New Democratic Party Union or Union of Farmers and New Democratic Parties (Valstiečių ir Naujosios demokratijos partijų sąjungos) |
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| | Townhall.com |
| | This is Why We Need Conservative Justices by EliotPeace | | | New York appellate court: Marriage is "cultural, social and legal ideal" | | | Today it is official, former State Senator John Campbell will take the Congressional seat vacated by SEC Chairman... |
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| | Headlines -- 313 (7053): 318 -- BMJ |
| | by the conservative Christian Social Union in Bavaria will compel | | | The Social Democrats warned that the new law |
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| | CNN.com - German gay marriage law backed - July 17, 2002 |
| | When the challenge was first raised last year, the conservative Christian Social Union, which rules Bavaria, said the legislation marked a "black day for families." | | | Bavaria is governed by Edmund Stoiber, the conservative challenger to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the September parliamentary elections. | | | Stoiber said he regretted the decision, but said he would not seek to overturn it if the conservatives win the upcoming election. |
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| | Anti-Capitalism Debate: Marx or Markets: German Politicians Debate the Dangers of Capitalism - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News |
| | A survey taken by pollster Infratest Dimap shows the conservative Christian Democratic Union leading in the state, with 45 percent of voters, whilst the SPD are lagging way behind with 35 percent. | | | Social Democratic Party leader Franz Muentefering: private equity firms are a "swarm of locusts". | | | In the run-up to pivotal regional elections in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the country's most populace state, the national leader of the Social Democratic Party has unleashed a firestorm of criticism with his attacks on big business. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Austria |
| | Italy and the other nations of the European Union, Japan, the United States, and Switzerland are also major trade partners. | | | Membership in unions is on a voluntary basis, but all wage earners are required by law to join their respective staff associations. | | | These are organized on a provincial basis and represent workers on legislative matters. |
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| | Scandal a blow to Germany's foreign minister, Green Party |
| | Conservatives sensed the visa issue could severely damage Fischer and the larger "Red-Green" coalition government of the Greens and Schroeder's Social Democrats. | | | The crisis also threatens Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's coalition government at a time when social reforms and a 12.6 percent unemployment rate prevent the leader from gaining a mandate to bolster his re-election chances in 2006. | | | Opponents have sought to discredit him and his Green Party, marred in recent years by ideological divides and minor scandals. |
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| | A Rebirth for German Nuclear Energy? Business Deutsche Welle 25.05.2005 |
| | Germany's conservative Christian Social Union party defends nuclear energy in the face of high oil and coal prices and demands that the government abandon its plan to close all German nuclear power plants. | | | Suddenly, the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) are considered favorites to form the next government in Berlin. | | | The prospect of victory by Germany's conservative opposition in an early general election has shaken up the country's energy sector. |
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| | Aljazeera.Net - Hijab causes major row in Germany |
| | This drew an angry retort from Edmund Stoiber, Bavarian state prime minister and head of the ultra-conservative Christian Social Union, | | | A row has broken out in Germany over the hijab, Islamic headscarf, following President Johannes Rau's call that all religions be treated equally in schools. | | | the Bavarian wing of the Christian Democratic Union, Germany's main opposition in parliament. |
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- World's beer drinkers march to Munich Oktoberfest |
| | This year's festival opens a day before state elections which are expected to deliver another landslide win to premier Edmund Stoiber and the conservative Christian Social Union which has governed Bavaria for the past four decades. | | | Munich mayor Christian Ude opened the two-week festival at midday, cracking open the first 200-litre keg with the customary shout of "O'zapft is" – the keg is tapped. | | | Stoiber himself drew huge cheers from the crowd as he entered the festival's main tent although a chorus of boos and whistles also broke out when he mentioned the upcoming election. |
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